Thanks! Excellent! :) Doing it by hand with vi, as i ended up having to do, went against all good principles! :)
On Mon, 12 Nov 2001 23:37, Andre Pang wrote: > On Mon, Nov 12, 2001 at 11:30:47PM +1100, Michael Covi wrote: > > Does anyone know how to type ^M so it appears as the actual control > > character? I was stuck trying to convert some scripts from dos to unix > > format on a very small root filesystem. It did have sed but how the hell > > do you type in the character to match it and eliminate it? > > Press Ctrl-V Ctrl-M (or Ctrl-V Enter -- Ctrl-M is basically the > same as the Enter key). > > Ctrl-V 'quotes' the next character and forces the shell to > interpret it literally. This works in most shells and in Vi. > > If you're using Emacs, the quote key is Ctrl-Q instead of Ctrl-V > (so it's Ctrl-Q Ctrl-M). In joe, it's ` (backtick). -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
